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Computing Science - Basics

Find out what’s inside a computer and how it works. In this course, you’ll explore:

  • Hardware – the physical parts you can see and touch, like monitors, keyboards, and speakers

  • Processor – the computer’s brain that follows instructions and makes things happen

  • Binary – how computers use only 1s and 0s to understand and store information
  • Backing storage – how computers save files and data so they don’t disappear

  • Bitmaps – how pictures on screens are made from tiny dots of colour